Berkeley Springs High School teacher Pete Gordon wants you to vote for the levy.
Or at least that’s according to a poster he’s handing out.
“I’m very proud of our school system and I will be voting for the levy,” Gordon said. “I’m voting for the levy primarily for two reasons. The first is our young people and the programs that support them. My other main concern are the many young teachers who have come here, they have stayed, they have bonded, some have married, some have bought homes and without the levy they will not be able to afford to stay here anymore.”
“We should not be in this position in the first place,” Gordon said. “We have citizen yelling at citizen. We have school against school. We have county against county. The state has a constitutional requirement to fund the schools and they are falling short. There is no county in West Virginia whose educational system can survive without a levy. There are about twelve counties without a levy, but they are either consolidated or have been taken over by the state. We need to pass this levy this time and then we need to go to the state to get this changed. The state has fallen short. And I plan to do that over the next four years so we won’t have to go through this again.”
Gordon said that there are number of pro-levy events coming up in the next few weeks.
Gordon is helping to organize a Rock the Levy event, featuring a number of bands, focusing on young people and their music, Friday April 11 at 7 pm at the Granary in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
And on Sunday May 4 at 1 pm, there will be a student rally for the levy at Berkeley Springs State Park.